Mask "idangani" · D. R. Congo, Salampasu · ID: 3034969
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Provenance
Peter Loebarth, Hameln, GermanySize
H: 39 cm
H: 15.4 inch
Description
raffia, plant fibres, plant fibre netting, protruding forehead and fleshy nose upholstered with wooden chips, beard of suspending fibres, crowned by a pointed headgear, min. dam., socle;
this mask type was probably used by the “idangani” society.
Comparing literature
Grootaers, J.-L., Eisenburger, I. (ed.), Forms of Wonderment, Vol. II, 2002, p. 547, ill. 651